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US Supreme Court sets April 25 Trump criminal immunity argument
(www.reuters.com)
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Americans, please for the love of all that is good left in the world you need to organise the biggest protest your country has ever seen for that date.
It's not an exaggeration to day that the future of the wester world relies on you guys not bring apathetic for once and doing more than leaving comments on lemmy or reddit or wherever.
If its at all possible for you to make it down to Washington on that day, you need to. Or else you are sending the message, loud and clear, that you don't really give a shit that a rougue supreme court with openly and proudly corrupt judges has taken control of your country and gets to make the laws whatever the fuck they want.
Or if you can't make it to DC organise a local protest. Please just do fucking SOMETHING.
Literally, it would do nothing. The supreme court will decide what it decides... They don't need to be elected.
What does matter is voting in November and getting people to vote for Biden again rather than some third party nutter that won't even come close to 10% of the vote.
The last three third party candidates who won more than one state were Strom Thurmond, George Wallace and Theodore Roosevelt.
The first two won the south on account of regional anger at the civil rights movement.
Roosevelt split the vote. 50.6% of the country voted for the Republican candidate or a former Republican, but the Democrat won a landslide with only 41% of the popular vote and 81% of the electoral college vote.
The closest a third party candidate has ever come to winning is Breckenridge, who got 18% of the popular vote and 23.8% of the EC vote running as a Southern Democrat because the south didn't like Stephen Douglas (who got 29.5% of the popular vote but only won a single state).
Voting third party basically doesn't work. Any time its been significant, it's just caused a spoiler effect.
SCOTUS are corrupt, unaccountable dictators. They do not care what the American people think. They don't care what the Constitution says. They don't fear the American people. They rule by fiat.